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Care of the sick

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  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
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    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
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    Die Krankenpflege im Hause und im Hospitale : ein Handbuch für Familien und Krankenpflegerinnen zum besten des Rudolphiner-Vereines zur Erbauung und Erhaltung eines Pavillon-krankenhauses behufs heranbildung von Plegerinnen für Kranke und Verwundete in Wien / herausgegeben von Th. Billroth.

    Billroth, Theodor, 1829-1894. | Date: 1881
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    Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

    | Date: 1864 | Reference: 24323i
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    A sermon preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny, President and the Governors of the London Hospital, or Infirmary : for the relief of sick and diseased persons, especially manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, &c. at the Parish-Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry, on Friday, April 6, 1750 / By Matthias Lord Bishop of Chichester.

    Mawson, Matthias, 1683-1770. | Date: [1750]
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    The interior of a hospital of the Order of St. John. Line engraving by Rasmäsler, 1828, after J.H. Ramberg.

    Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840. | Date: 1828 | Reference: 17375i
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